FROM CLASSROOM TO HEART: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' RECOGNITION OF TEACHING IMPACT THROUGH GRATITUDE JOURNALS

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1452511021

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• Keywords: gratitude, journal, positive psychology, English, learning, teaching languages.

• Abstract: Nowadays, teaching a new language to university students requires new strategies; which must seek to cover the emotional needs that have arisen to limit or hinder the learning dynamics, the behavior of students affected by different complex emotional situations; which could sometimes even indicate a simulation of learning on the part of the students. Aware of this situation, teachers have turned to different areas of knowledge to integrate them into their teaching praxis. Therefore, language teachers in Mexico have included the challenge of learning a new language; they have discovered that all those brief, simple, everyday goals and activities that allow students to visualize their linguistic acquisition, transform this challenge into a possible task. During the last three years at Centro de Idiomas, Universidad Veracruzana, some students have been working with a gratitude journal, they are starting to learn English as a second language and these groups have been willing to understand and consider the learning process and the learning environment as an important part in the construction of their progress. This is just a brief example of their work and contributions that shows they pay attention to all those efforts teachers do every day.